Hello!
I bought 5 crepe myrtles from Kenny's nursery south of Ocala. They are all pretty big with fat roots that I had to cut out of the pots. One I knew was very iffy - it had a gigantic tap root through the ground cover and the nursery folks were basically going to destroy it, but I bought it. Anyway, that tree and one other, which looked great, though roots had grown to the grown and had to be cut, are seeming to fail. I've stayed on top of watering, even put some polymer crystals in the planting holes along with a bit of bone meal (which has been my practice for a while, but maybe isn't needed here) and compost. Three of the trees seem to be doing ok, but I don't know what to do about the two that are losing leaves that turned yellow. I gave them both some fish/kelp yesterday....
Any suggestions? Just wait and see? I'm told CM are very resilient and tough to kill - but those seem to be the plants I'm really good at killing.
Here is the one with the big tap root on the day it was planted. It's about 3/4 bare of leaves now.
